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[enismirdal]

Interesting lecture today - despite this being Plant Sciences, it was mostly on infection of humans by fungi. Which is rather interesting and cool. If they replaced the 1B Pathology lectures on fungi with this one, it would probably work rather better than the existing Path fungi lecture! I rather enjoyed it, and it looks like I've fortuitously managed to get a rather interesting presentation topic.

I have finished an essay! Go me!

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[cobalt-skye.livejournal.com]

Gah, presentations
I've been landed with another one of those today :(

[l-j-b.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds interesting. The Path one last year was fairly craptacular.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yeah - last year's was sort of 1A Cells introduction to yeast followed by, "Fungi affect immunocompromised people. Have a nice lunch." Today's lecture was nice and straightforward but seemed to have a nice balance of recapping old stuff and yet covering new stuff too. :)

[luin77.livejournal.com]

Yay, congratulations on finishing your essay! :)

When we took the tour through one of the woods in the Rotorua area, the tour-guide talked about fungae and I asked him what the difference between fungae and mushrooms was (in Germany we have just one word for the two things - Pilze). He didn't know, however. Is there an easy explanation? :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess...

"Fungi" (yeah, I just realised I misspelled it through my post, and only now checked and realised why it looked wrong...! LOL) is the scientific term for the kingdom in terms of classification. Like "Plants" or "Animals" or "Bacteria", I guess. And includes things like yeast and mould and athlete's foot - you wouldn't call the mould on bread a mushroom, I imagine! Would you apply "Pilze" to those kind of fungi too? Like yeast?

"Mushroom" is a sort of common, non-technical term that really just applies to the sort of "fleshy" fungus. Well, if you really want to be picky, I suppose you'd only use "mushroom" to refer to the bit we see growing in the woods, i.e. the reproductive part! So I guess "mushroom" means "fleshy fungal genitals"!! :D

[luin77.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, LOL! You should not have said anything... I knew fungi, but reading fungae here and from *you*, I thought it might just be fungae in English! :D

You are right, yeast is Hefe, I think and the mould on bread is Schimmelpilz, so Pilz is a term including many things in Germmn too, I guess. Not that I have any knowledge about any of this! Thank you for the explanation!! *hugs* :)

Ewww... "fleshy fungal genitals"? No more "pizza fungi" from the Italian restaurant for me! ;D

[melime.livejournal.com]

*shudders* Fungus infecting people... sounds like an episode of CSI. Bllergh. :( I'm glad you find it interesting and cool though, especially since you had to sit through it!

Still... ick! :(